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12 Then the Lord told Satan, “Very well then, everything he owns is under your control,[a] only you may not extend your hand against him.” So Satan left the Lord’s presence.

13 Some time later, when his children[b] were celebrating[c] in their oldest[d] brother’s house, 14 a messenger approached Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the female donkeys were grazing nearby

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Footnotes

  1. Job 1:12 Lit. hand
  2. Job 1:13 Lit. his sons and daughters
  3. Job 1:13 Lit. were eating and drinking wine
  4. Job 1:13 Lit. their firstborn